Politicians and diplomats are seeing American greenlight in Israel’s pounding of Gaza, and call into question an apparent double standard that President Biden’s rhetoric can’t mask.
Speaking from the Oval Office, Biden said both the dictatorial regime in the Kremlin and Islamist militant group Hamas “represent different threats, but they share this in common: They both want to completely annihilate a neighboring democracy.” Extending support to Kyiv’s fight against Russian invasion and Israel’s campaign against Hamas in the besieged Gaza Strip were essential, Biden insisted, in showing nations elsewhere that “American leadership is what holds the world together.
Yet on Wednesday, a day before Biden’s speech, the United States deployed its veto at the United Nations Security Council
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